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The ICC World Cup as it is panning out
Reginald St. H ShillingfordMarch 12, 2015The 2015 I.C.C World Cup pans out rather interestingly. There are a number of qualitative groupings within the general assemblage. Take Pool 'B" in which the West Indies are located. ...
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Gayle enforced
Reginald St. H ShillingfordMarch 3, 2015Much may have gone through the minds of the Zimbabwe players as they endured the gale force winds swirling from the bat of Chris Gayle. Some thoughts may have leaned ...
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Sorrowful start for West Indies
Reginald St. H ShillingfordFeb. 28, 2015Failure to get to the semi-finals of the World Cup more than once in the last seven tournaments does not appear likely to be lifted this time around for West ...
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Living the Dream
Reginald St. H ShillingfordFeb. 10, 2015A very erudite and supremely well delivered documentary type advertisement going the rounds recently has asked in very pointed language whether the West Indies can once more live the dream ...
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Lords unto themselves
Reginald St. H ShillingfordFeb. 3, 2015Somewhere during one of the ill-fated one day matches of the West Indies latest tour of South Africa I heard a South African commentator asking a West Indian colleague – ...
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Half measures
Reginald St. H ShillingfordJan. 28, 2015Towards the year's end and the dawning of the new year the West Indies selectors took the step to omit from the squad for the 2015 World Cup one or ...
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Requiem for a cricketer
Reginald St. H ShillingfordDec. 25, 2014The first Border/Gavasker Test match at Adelaide will go down as memorable for a number of reasons, chief of which was its portrayal on the throes of Phil Hughes' tragic ...
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Cricket on life support
Reginald St. H ShillingfordDec. 20, 2014Cricket had largely been associated with the very homely image of a rural sport, typified no less than by the personality of the Gloucestershire country doctor W.G Grace, known to ...
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A fast five bullet for Dominica
Reginald St. H ShillingfordDec. 20, 2014Last month I suggested the idea of a "fast five" netball competition be introduced in Dominica. At least, this was to be implied in the development sense for the improvement ...
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"Performance for pay" rationale for West Indies cricketers
Reginald St. H ShillingfordDec. 3, 2014Often it has been said the players on the West Indies cricket team should be remunerated on a performance basis. This has been offered by the general public that the ...
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Looking inside the head
Reginald St. H ShillingfordNov. 26, 2014A popular song of some years back has the singer voicing: "I want to look inside your head …" I feel that was the position of Clive Hubert Lloyd on ...